Wednesday, December 31, 2008

THIS WEEK ON THE CHARTS


Kanye West officially went platinum this week since his 808s & Heartbreak album debuted on the charts seven weeks ago. He has racked in a total of 1,023,900 copies sold. TI moved another 78,000 units to push his 13 week total to over 1.5 million sold, while Ludacris rang in with 58,300 units, putting him at 439,200 total after five weeks. Weezy continues to push numbers, landing at number 32 this week with a total of 2.87 million copies sold so far. On the R&B tip, Beyonce continues to control the sales charts pushing another 210,918 units sold, putting her total to almost 1.5 million, while Keyshia Cole saw “A Different Me” sale another 126,506 units sold putting her totals to near gold. And of course we couldn't forget about our boy, Soulja Boy who sold another whopping 34,370 copies pushing his two week total to just under 80,000 copies, claiming recylced paper status. He's going green ya'll.